Year End Sales

                                                                               Photo by Jim Champion

Image: Sales at a Chain Store

Image Source: From Wikimedia Commons through Creative Commons licence (here)

Victoria is hosting at dVerse. She has challenged us to create Steampunk Poetry. It is taking two contrasting topics and merging them in a poem. I’ve chosen  one, the Year End Sales and two, the impending year end exams ( in italics) Hoping I’m doing it correctly

Victoria also asked us to use enjambment. This is the literary practice of breaking up a unit of syntax ( a phrase or sentence) at the end of a line ( or even between two verses ) I've not tried it here!.

Y.E.S. The Year End Sales is in the offing

The heat is on, the year end exams are here too

Everyone’s all worked up anxiously waiting

Last minute preparations are keeping them busy

Clawing back on what is deemed necessary

Boys and girls are glued to their notes 

To supplement what’s left of the recent ones

Those who had been googling for answers before

Will know there are bargains on the cheap?

They are now struggling looking for whatever notes

Or is it just a ploy to get rid off of what’s left

Worst off are the cut-and-paste practitioners

But who cares! They are convenient

There are those who seem to just relax

One must be smart to pick out one's needs

They can well afford to do so for they were prepared

But the yuppies are more into the fun of it

They were busy from the beginning of the year

To make a kill, a real one at that

Now they are having fun, less pressure on themselves

It’ll be the conversation piece the next day

They yearn to get into it rightaway

Everyone would want to have a say

To get it over with, off their shoulders

The office will be real busy but work suffers

There are other more important things to do

Talking and comparing, showing offs

Songs and games, facebook and what have you

That is more fun and Y.E.S had only just begun

The so-called life of deprivation will soon be over

Written for d'Verse where Victoria is hosting